To me sweets are any small wrapped sweetie type thing that isn't chocolate which is it's own thing, so I think American candy is any chocolate or sweets? Sweets aren't pudding and neither is cake unless you are having it at the end of a meal (before or after the cheese course depending on whether you're French or not) but as well as a course pudding is also a thing, cooked in a pudding bowl i.e steak and kidney pudding or syrup pudding...

Confused yet?

jvnt, mother to The Boy, August '09, Baby Dragon, January '12 and HP May '14.

Hope this isn't already on here I didn't have time to read them all.car boot= trunkLoo=toliet are these right I just saw them in another topic and I guess there pretty easy to figure out but it always gives me a chuckleOh! And I see wonky on here alot and I started using it as wacky..hope that's right,hee hee i just love the way it sounds

Riotproof wrote:I still think squash is funny. Here, it's either a vegetable it a sports game, but in the uk it's cordial.

Ahhh yes, 'tis funny. But we also have "Pub Squash", ie a fizzy lemon drink.

What I found reeeeeeeeeeaaaally funny when I first went to Scotland (not sure if it's the whole of the UK or just Scotland), is that they call fizzy drinks "juice"!! WTF??? The first time I found this out was when at the work cafeteria they had a deal that was whatever the "meal of the day" was plus a can of juice! I asked my friend which juices you could get (ie real juice) because they were different sizes, and he pointed out the cans (coke, lemonade, irn bru etc). I found that so weird as it in no way resembles juice!

Actually it seems "juice" is used to describe pretty much any drink I think. I had a friend who used to give her baby water in a sippy cup but call it juice!! Why???